Gordon MacRae

Gordon MacRae is the sort of golden-age entertainer I find genuinely warming. His rich baritone in the film versions of Oklahoma! and Carousel carries an open-hearted clarity that modern crooning rarely matches, and his On Moonlight Bay films with Doris Day feel like sunlight bottled from another era. What I appreciate is that he was a true double threat, singing and acting with equal sincerity rather than coasting on either. His Hollywood Walk of Fame star is well earned. He left us in 1986, but I think of him as a reminder of how generously straightforward old-school showmanship could be.

Name (English)

Gordon MacRae

Name (Japanese)

ゴードン・マクレー

Reading

ごーどん・まくれー

Born

March 12, 1921 – January 24, 1986

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rooster

Origin

East Orange, New Jersey, United States

Occupation

actor / singer / stage actor / film actor / television actor

High school

Nottingham High School

Awards & achievements

• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20MacRae
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1153004

Tags

• New Jersey
• actor
• singer
• stage actor

Last updated

2026-06-18

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.